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Re:Chelsea Manning Is Expected to Leave Prison, 28 Years Early by LordKano on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @11:40AM (#14359507)
About ten years ago, I was riding with my friend in his car and he wanted to score a bag of marijuana so he called his dealer and in plain-speak said he was looking for some weed.

I stared at him with my mouth hanging open and when the call ended, I asked him why he would do that.

He said that the dealer didn't care because he was small time and no one was listening anyway.

I don't hang out with this friend much anymore but I hope he has since wised up.

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Re:Chelsea Manning Is Expected to Leave Prison, 28 Years Early by grandalf on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @11:58AM (#14359727)
Chances are nothing will happen all that soon, but it's certainly plausible that in addition to storing a 60 day rolling window of all calls, the NSA stores a 3000 day rolling window of calls explicitly describing intent to commit crimes, even if the crimes are minimal.
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